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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5916300" data-attributes="member: 22424">Actually, the game doesn't even need to make that assumption, and might perhaps be better off by not doing so.The game could just as easily present the domains and instructing PC Clerics to just pick two (or whatever). Then, in setting books, present the rule that Clerics of that setting must pick a god, and select the domains from the subset provided by that god.(That said, I've also been thinking for quite some time that the current 'generic' Cleric doesn't really work as a catch-all class. I'm inclined to think that the war-priest, sacred exorcist, and mystic priest are sufficiently distinct archetypes that they should probably not be a single class - they're at least as different as the Fighter, Barbarian and Paladin, for example.)I think there is an argument for doing an optional &quot;Fourth Core Rulebook&quot;, presenting a default setting in a bit more detail. 3e had this in the form of a Greyhawk Gazeteer (although IIRC it wasn't a very good product... that said, no reason they couldn't do the same thing, but better).Indeed, White Wolf have had success in this area with their new World of Darkness, where they have a Core Rulebook, and then hang the various sub-games off that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5916300, member: 22424"] Actually, the game doesn't even need to make that assumption, and might perhaps be better off by not doing so. The game could just as easily present the domains and instructing PC Clerics to just pick two (or whatever). Then, [i]in setting books[/i], present the rule that Clerics of that setting must pick a god, and select the domains from the subset provided by that god. (That said, I've also been thinking for quite some time that the current 'generic' Cleric doesn't really work as a catch-all class. I'm inclined to think that the war-priest, sacred exorcist, and mystic priest are sufficiently distinct archetypes that they should probably not be a single class - they're at least as different as the Fighter, Barbarian and Paladin, for example.) I think there is an argument for doing an optional "Fourth Core Rulebook", presenting a default setting in a bit more detail. 3e had this in the form of a Greyhawk Gazeteer (although IIRC it wasn't a very good product... that said, no reason they couldn't do the same thing, but better). Indeed, White Wolf have had success in this area with their new World of Darkness, where they have a Core Rulebook, and then hang the various sub-games off that. [/QUOTE]

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